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Daily Cybersecurity Update, March 08, 2024

Five notable happenings today in the cyber world:

The NCSC-Switzerland said that the Play ransomware attack at Xplain impacted 65,000 important documents of the Federal Administration. The documents were from various administrative units, including the Federal Department of Justice and Police, the Federal Office of Justice, and the Federal Office of Police.

German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption

German law enforcement agencies are using features built into apps such as WhatsApp to monitor people’s messages without breaking their...
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German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption

Urgent Patch! cPanel, GitLab Flaws Expose Users to RCE, File and Credential Theft

GitLab has released an important security update to fix two serious problems. These issues could allow unauthorized file access and...
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Urgent Patch! cPanel, GitLab Flaws Expose Users to RCE, File and Credential Theft

Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw Enables Root Arbitrary Code Execution

Palo Alto Networks has revealed a serious flaw in PAN-OS. It may let a remote attacker without a password run...
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Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw Enables Root Arbitrary Code Execution

Critical Check Point VPN flaws allow remote code execution attacks

Check Point Software has revealed and fixed two major VPN flaws, CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103. Both have a top CVSS score...
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Critical Check Point VPN flaws allow remote code execution attacks

Cisco confirms CVE-2026-20079 flaw in Secure FMC is exploited in attacks

Cisco has said that a serious security flaw CVE-2026-20079 in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software is being used...
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Cisco confirms CVE-2026-20079 flaw in Secure FMC is exploited in attacks

Hackers exploit PaperCut flaws using hundreds of AI agents, compromising 440 servers globally

A Russian-speaking hacker has used artificial intelligence like never before. They sent out hundreds of AI agents to find and...
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Hackers exploit PaperCut flaws using hundreds of AI agents, compromising 440 servers globally

CISA Says Chinese Firms Extracted Billions of Tokens From Frontier AI Models

Six Chinese AI companies ran large-scale attacks on American AI models since late 2024, according to U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence...
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CISA Says Chinese Firms Extracted Billions of Tokens From Frontier AI Models

Nightmare Eclipse Drops New Microsoft Defender ‘ShieldCrash’ zero-day

An unknown security expert called Nightmare Eclipse has drops a new Microsoft Defender flaw called "ShieldCrash" right after Microsoft released...
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Nightmare Eclipse Drops New Microsoft Defender ‘ShieldCrash’ zero-day

cPanel Flaw Lets Hosting Accounts With Mail Privileges Execute Code as Root

cPanel has shared CVE-2026-67401, a serious SQL injection flaw in EmailTrack. This flaw could allow attackers with permission to take...
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cPanel Flaw Lets Hosting Accounts With Mail Privileges Execute Code as Root

FortiSandbox, FortiOS, FortiProxy ZTNA flaws unveil, while Fortigate firewall actively exploited

An ongoing attack is focused on FortiGate firewalls. Hackers use a serious flaw to install a special Node.js remote access...
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FortiSandbox, FortiOS, FortiProxy ZTNA flaws unveil, while Fortigate firewall actively exploited

The NSA and CISA issued five cybersecurity bulletins about securing data in the cloud. The recommendations cover implementing IAM solutions, encryption, and key management.

A report by FS-ISAC and Akamai showed that DDoS attacks on the financial sector increased by 154% in 2023 compared to 2022, mainly due to strong botnets and cyber hacktivist groups.

Tycoon and Storm-1575 threat actors carried out spear-phishing attacks on U.S. school districts in November 2023. They used Microsoft 365 credentials to bypass MFA protections.
The Rhysida ransomware group sold data stolen from Lurie Children’s Hospital for 60 bitcoins (approximately $3.4 million) on the dark web. The hospital is working on restoring the affected systems.

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